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Quotes About Charity

Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life . . .
~ Nelson Mandela
Everyone can do simple things to make a difference, and every little bit really does count.
~ Stella McCartney
Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.
~ Maimonides
In this long eternal quest to be more like our Savior, may we try to be "perfect" men and women in at least this one way now—by offending not in word, or more positively put, by speaking with a new tongue, the tongue of angels. Our words, like our deeds, should be filled with faith and hope and charity, the three great Christian imperatives so desperately needed in the world today.
~ Jeffrey R. Holland
The Book of Mormon is the keystone of our religion primarily because it is the most extended and definitive witness we have of the Lord Jesus Christ--of our Alpha and Omega, the Key Stone, the Chief Cornerstone of the eternal gospel. Christ is our salvation, and the Book of Mormon declares that message unequivocally to the world. In its message of faith in Christ, hope in Christ, and charity in Christ, the Book of Mormon is God's "new covenant" to his children--for the last time.
~ Jeffrey R. Holland
Let people repent. Let people grow. Believe that people can change and improve. Is that faith? Yes! Is that hope? Yes! Is it charity? Yes! Above all, it is charity, the pure love of Christ. If something is buried in the past, leave it buried. Don't keep going back with your little sand pail and beach shovel to dig it up, wave it around, and then throw it at someone, saying, "Hey! Do you remember this?" Splat!
~ Jeffrey R. Holland
giving is one of our greatest joys. It's also one of the most fearless and powerful gestures there is.
~ Jen Sincero
giving is one of our greatest joys.
~ Jen Sincero
Gaben sind dazu da, gegeben zu werden.
~ Jen Sincero
A good deed needs no excuse.
~ Jennifer Egan
A good deed needs no excuse. So his pop used to reassure Dexter when he would resist, embarrassed, carrying a covered dish of leftover meatballs to the bums and hoboes who haunted the carny houses near his restaurant. Dexter muttered the phrase to himself as he lifted the heavy folded chair into his trunk. A good deed needs no excuse.
~ Jennifer Egan
Giving money to individuals does little." "It does a lot," I said quietly, "for those people.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
It might feel better to give to someone you know than a stranger, or to donate to an organization whose story brings a tear to your eye, but that's your brain playing tricks on you. The morality of an action depends, ultimately and only, on its outcomes.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Do you know what philanthropist means?" Libby asked me seriously. "It means rich.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Therein lies the new hope—Justice, after eighteen hundred years of impotent Charity. Ah! in a thousand years from now, when Catholicism will be naught but a very ancient superstition of the past, how amazed men will be to think that their ancestors were able to endure that religion of torture and nihility!
~ Émile Zola
He had ceased to believe in the efficacy of alms; it was not sufficient that one should be charitable, henceforth one must be just. Given justice, indeed, horrid misery would disappear, and no such thing as charity would be needed.
~ Émile Zola
You talk of her mind being unsettled. How the devil could it be otherwise in her frightful isolation? And that insipid, paltry creature attending her from duty and humanity ! From pity and charity ! He might as well plant an oak in a flower-pot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares!
~ Emily Bronte
Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.
~ Emily Bronte
Depois de teres arrasado o meu palácio, não me construas uma choupana e penses que estás a ser muito caridosa por isso.
~ Emily Bronte
Of Course - I prayed - And did God Care? He cared as much as on the Air A Bird - had stamped her foot - And cried Give Me - My Reason - Life - I had not had - but for Yourself - 'Twere better Charity To leave me in the Atom's Tomb - Merry, and Nought, and gay, and numb - Than this smart Misery.
~ Emily Dickinson
heartedness
~ Enid Blyton
steal from the rich and give to the poor. Well, maybe just steal from the rich.
~ Eoin Colfer
He could be like a modern-day Robin Hood: steal from the rich and give to the poor. Well, maybe just steal from the rich. One step at a time.
~ Eoin Colfer
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
~ Erich Fromm